This warfare SFX library was recorded during a three-day military exercise, using several Combat Vehicle 90s performing live firing exercises with 40mm cannons and 7.62 machine guns. The recording consists of several multichannel setups from various distances, perspectives and environments such as forest and huge fields.

The library contains huge tails in different environments, shooting at close and far distances with various occlusion, onboard firing, sonic booms, ricochets, bullet cracks, projectile tails and much more. It also has some onboard and exterior vehicle movements and maneuvers. For sounds of military operations, you can't go wrong with this collection.

Audiobeast is proud to present our second sample library; the only library of its kind to focus entirely on weapons being fired in urban environments! For this recording session we were given access to a military training site known as a FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Area) consisting of streets with a variety of buildings, vehicles, and exclusive permission to fire weapons in several locations. Pictures of the street and gas station locations and firing points are included.

The aim of this library was to offer the slapback type tails needed for gun sound design for convincing city scenes in film, games and tv production. It's always been difficult to find gun recordings in a city environment so we hope this library helps sound people everywhere.

This Library contains over 3 GBs of weapons being fired in multiple urban environments, a street, outside of a gas station and inside of a tower block. 218 WAV files of single shots, bursts and many with multiple takes, all recorded at 96 khz 24 bit, with heaps of information on microphones used and distance from the firearms.

Various distances were captured, from the DPA4062 on the guns themselves, to the distant other end of the street 100 metres away. To add, some mics were positioned around corners, a nearby graveyard, through walls and in armored vehicles to capture a variety of perspectives.

Minimal cleanup on the recordings was carried out very carefully so as not to introduce any artefacts into the recordings, they are presented as raw as possible.

When you carry the word „BOOM“ in your company name, your first dedicated explosion sound effects library should be a decent one. For the recordings, we teamed up with the sound department of EA DICE (Battlefield, Star Wars Battlefront) and we created the biggest explosion sound FX library ever. DICE uses the recordings heavily to impressively blow up the world in their AAA title Battlefield V and now you can get the recordings and our ready-to-use designed sounds in stereo and 5.1 surround for your very own projects. It’s a highly explosive pack with 13.4GB of explosion sound effects.

Urban Explosions Construction Kit:

Recorded in real urban environments
Why Urban Explosions? Most explosions in movies, games or trailers don’t happen out on a plain field, they happen in urban environments with buildings around them that shape the character of the explosion sound in a very specific way. The special thing about our urban explosions sound FX library is that it has been recorded in a real urban environment, so you get super-realistic reverbs and tails instead of artificially processed post-production reverbs or tails that don’t sound urban at all. For the sake of completeness, we also recorded a non-urban explosion on a plain field, so you’re covered here as well.

Multi-Channel Recordings with up to 42 Channels
We had a lot of microphones with us and we placed them in all possible positions around the explosion spot. We have very close mics, close mics, medium distance mics, distant mics, mics in front of buildings, mics behind buildings, mics inside of buildings. Each explosion in the URBAN EXPLOSIONS CONSTRUCTION KIT comes with a minimum of 24 channels, including a 4 channel ambisonic file, so you can simply drag all channels to your DAW and easily mix the sound exactly as you want.

Sweeteners
You’re looking for a more supernatural sound or your mix misses a bit of impact, smack, punch, tail, cackling, rumbling or character? No problem, the CONSTRUCTION KIT has a lot of great high-quality sweeteners that will easily enrich your mix in the desired way.

Urban Explosions Designed:

Incredibly versatile
Our DESIGNED edition comes with a myriad of ready-to-use explosion sound FX in the categories INDOOR, NEUTRAL & URBAN, each of them in SMALL, MEDIUM & LARGE explosion sizes. Beyond that, you have the choice between MEDIUM and FAR distances, FAST or SLOW explosions and a MODERN, SOFT, CRISP or DISTORTED character. With this range of sounds, you’re certainly sure to find the right one for your scene.

Stereo & 5.1 Surround
In addition to the stereo version our sound designers created 5.1 surround versions for each sound so you are fully prepared to implement your creative surround vision with ease.

Designed by 4 Award-Winning Sound Designers
We consider sound design as a craftsmanship and we’re very happy and proud to rely on the talent of four awesome sound designers that really know their trade.

Urban Explosions Bundle:

THE BUNDLE – The best of both worlds at a discounted price
The Bundle gives you the full sound design power as it contains both – the DESIGNED and the CONSTRUCTION KIT edition at a discounted price.

Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.

The War UI Sound Effects Library enables you to quickly outfit your characters with pre-built military classes, gear, inventory, notifications, unlocks and alerts. From natural and organic SFX to highly designed and processed epic war style electronic and digital SFX, all assembled into a value-packed comprehensive collection of 1750+ sounds and effects.

The War Zone sound effects library gets you whooshes, debris, cannon shots, beeps, countdown, explosions – ready to be used as they are in your projects, or layered to create complex war ambiences. A total of 170 sound effects are included, categorized into beeps, explosions, beeping mine explosions, debris, low whooshes, whooshes, shots and whooshes + debris.

Plunge your audience into the battle trenches with ultra immersive WARFARE environments of the highest quality! This audio library offers you hours of different soundscapes, including DAYTIME NATURE ambiences in FORESTS or GRASSLANDS, distant GUNFIRE from BUNKERS or GARAGES, classic WARZONE BATTLEFIELD environments, prisoner of war HOLDING CELL interiors, WINDY WASTELANDS, WAR SAFE ZONE COMPOUND interiors, and much much more! Whether your project is set on the beaches of Normandy in Saving Private Ryan or set in a VietNamese jungle in Apocalypse Now, everything you’ll need to immerse your users in ambiences of gunpowder and bullets is here!

WARFARE AMBIENCES is the perfect choice to transport your players or users to any combat environment you require!

GET IT NOW to 100% immerse your users into perfect scenes and settings!

EXPLORE ENTIRE WORLDS
Whether your adventure takes place on a BATTLEFIELD, in a PRISON, on a FARM or in a VILLAGE, or outdoors in the GRASSLANDS, COUNTRYSIDE, FOREST, or JUNGLE, or on a BEACH or ISLAND, we’ve got you covered! Each ambience contains MULTIPLE VARIATIONS, ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS, and MULTIPLE INTENSITIES to cover each and every scene. This sound effects library is perfect for any setting you can imagine.

AN ADVENTURE TO REMEMBER
Our expert team of sound designers have meticulously crafted each ambience into CONTINUOUS, NON-REPETITIVE, DRAG AND DROP-READY LOOPS that will serve as perfect background audio for your game, film, animation, live event, or even as relaxing background audio! We have even included FULL and SIMPLIFIED MIXES, SHORT and LONG non-repetitive variants, multiple choices for INTENSITIES, and numerous other options for your convenience!

INCREDIBLE EASE-OF-USE
Each audio file is drag-and-drop ready, presented in high-quality MP3 and WAV formats with meticulously labeled keywords, so you can create the perfect gaming experience for your players in a matter of moments! Enrich your title in seconds with beautifully mixed, AAA quality sounds brought to you by our team of industry veterans, whose 600+ games worth of experience have culminated in this extraordinary pack of ambiences.

Look no further than blockbuster films to see how crucial incredible audio is for a truly immersive warfare experience. With this in mind, we have meticulously designed WARFARE AMBIENCES for you to immerse your audience in maximum tension.

KEY FEATURES:

Huge variety of quiet and loud dynamics, background and foreground, simplified or fully-layered, all with different length and intensity variants

Ready to use – requires no editing, labelling or splicing

Categorized, organized and individually labeled files for maximum use efficiency

Breathe life into your WARFARE project with this comprehensive, meticulously recorded, edited and mastered sound effects collection of any AIR or SKY WARFARE VEHICLES! Perfect for use in a war themed or shooting video game, contemporary or historical military film, animation, or any other project that requires the Highest Quality AIR FORCE or related AERIAL WARFARE sounds!

With 180 audio files and 60 original cinematic-quality sounds, we went the extra mile by creating multiple variations for many sounds. All files are meticulously labeled, categorized and organized for maximum efficiency and ease of use, requiring absolutely no editing, labeling or splicing! And as always, we have included HD WAV, SD WAV and HQ MP3 versions of each sound for your convenience!

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Video Games

Slot Games

Film / Animation

Ads / Trailers

YouTube Videos

Live Events

Sound Design

…and all other audio-visual productions!

KEY FEATURES:

Huge selection of aerial warfare vehicles with mechanical industrial and modern clean sounds, different type and intensity variants

Ready to use – requires no editing, labelling or splicing

Categorized, organized and individually labelled files for maximum use efficiency

Breathe life into your WARFARE project with this comprehensive, meticulously recorded, edited and mastered sound effects collection of any LAND or SEA WARFARE VEHICLES or VESSELS! Perfect for use in a war themed or shooting video game, contemporary or historical military film, animation, or any other project that requires the Highest Quality NAVY, COAST GUARD, ARMY, or related LAND or SEA sounds!

Whether your squadron needs AMMUNITION DROPS, EXPLOSIONS, WEAPONS RELOADING and HANDLING, HEAVY TRUCKS, MILITARY JEEPS, LAND ROVERS, SUBMARINES, or UNDERWATER TORPEDO FIRING, this pack delivers all you could want for your land-based or sea-based military or warfare situations.

With 180 audio files and 60 original cinematic-quality sounds, we went the extra mile by creating multiple variations for many sounds. All files are meticulously labeled, categorized and organized for maximum efficiency and ease of use, requiring absolutely no editing, labeling or splicing! And as always, we have included HD WAV, SD WAV and HQ MP3 versions of each sound for your convenience!

PERFECT FOR:

Video Games

Slot Games

Film / Animation

Ads / Trailers

YouTube Videos

Live Events

Sound Design

…and all other audio-visual productions!

KEY FEATURES:

Great selection of land-based vehicles and sea-based vessels with mechanical industrial and modern clean sounds, different type and intensity variants

Ready to use – requires no editing, labelling or splicing

Categorized, organized and individually labelled files for maximum use efficiency

Weapon Mech & Reload Sounds is a sfx library recorded for police / military related film or video games. Recorded at 24/96,(real guns and soft/air guns) with 3 microphones (omni, cardioid and shotgun), you can use one sound or mix the 3 layers together for more impact!

Weaponiser is the only all-in-one solution for weapon sound design; providing a powerful and efficient workflow, a comprehensive library of professionally recorded weapons, carefully designed presets with high-end, real-time synthesis and unparalleled sound quality – making it the ultimate ‘go to’ tool-kit for creating dynamic assets.

Weaponiser Basic gets you started with an introductory library of professionally recorded weapons, carefully designed presets with high-end, real-time synthesis and unparalleled sound quality – making it the ultimate ‘go to’ tool-kit for creating dynamic assets.

Weaponiser Basic offers a total of 952 assets, 515 edited Weapon recordings, 4 weapons, 398 Sweeteners and 39 IRs and 70 presets. It also allows you to import your own assets.

Formats (64-bit only): AAX Native/AudioSuite, VST, AU. An iLok account (available for free at ilok.com) is required to activate and use the software. A dongle is not required, but if you want to use one, an iLok 2 or later is the one to use.

Formats (64-bit only): AAX Native/AudioSuite, VST, AU. An iLok account (available for free at ilok.com) is required to activate and use the software. A dongle is not required, but if you want to use one, an iLok 2 or later is the one to use.

Weapons of World War II is Super Thumps first of many sound libraries recorded and designed by film and video game industry veterans!

This library features 14 different weapons, some of them quite rare, that were commonly used in World War II between German and American forces. The weapons were recorded at various distances, perspectives, and firing modes with a wide array of microphones. They have been compiled together and designed with a punch at 96,000 Hz, 24-bit, ready for you to easily drop into your project! Each weapon contains multiple variations and versions.

The Audio Hero Western collection features 200 professionally recorded sound effects, ready for use in your productions. Included in this library are guns and pistols, horses, stagecoaches, steam trains, jail cell doors and much more! These sounds are all hand-picked from the Hollywood Edge Burtis Bills' Sounds of the American West sound effects collection.

Whoosh, Swoosh & Swing is a large collection of “whipping” sounds made by various objects including golf clubs, swords, spatulas, fishing poles, cloth, and much more. Some of the sounds were sped up or slowed down using analog tape to give them a vintage Kung-Fu movie feel.

These sounds are essential to a good fight or sports scene, as body parts, weapons, or flying objects whip around the screen!

The WORLD WAR 2 TANKS sound effects library delivers a gigantic arsenal of tank sounds, recorded in collaboration with Pole Position Productions (PPP) from Sweden.

You get 8 different tanks to be super-flexible in your military sound design environment. Each tank gives you driveby and onboard maneuvers. The onboard recordings are multi-channel recordings (4x stereo) that enable you to perfectly mix the sounds as you wish.

For example: your interior scene sounds good but you need some more mechanical chain sound? Simply boost the “Tracks” channel in your mix and you're set. You're totally free to give your tank the character it needs.

Whether it's a heavily damaged and slow tank or some massive crawling beasts that will – once at full speed – flatten everything that crosses their way. You're in full control with this SFX library. But there's more. Besides driveby and multi-channel driving sounds, we added some handling sounds and – you'll especially love them – a fine selection of incredible cannon shots.

Included are more than 400 files in more than 27GB of data. All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible.

A special EFX collection of recordings of World War II weapons from both the US and Germany, featuring the STURMGEWEHR 44, WALTHER P 38, MAUSER KAR 98K, MP 40, COLT 1911, M1 GARAND and the THOMPSON A1.

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